Earn over 2800 Euros monthly as Medical Coordinator at Médecins du Monde (MdM)
Job Title: Medical Coordinator
Organisation: Médecins du Monde (MdM)
Salary: Gross monthly salary: 2.816 euros
Duty Station: Uganda
About US:
For more than 40 years, Médecins du Monde (MdM), a campaigning medical organization committed to international solidarity, has been caring for the most vulnerable populations at home and abroad. It has continued to highlight obstacles that exist in accessing health care and has secured sustainable improvements in health-for-all policies. Those working for this independent organization do not solely dispense care and treatment but condemn violations of human dignity and rights and fight to improve matters for populations living in precarious situations.
Job Summary: The Medical Coordinator will be supervising the implementation of medical activities. You are defining MdM strategy regarding medical activities in line with MdM’s overall framework and responsible for the overall quality of medical and health-related activities of the programmes.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Participate in the development of the operational strategy and develop health activities’ operational plan with the coordination team
- Perform/validate health needs assessments in new identified areas
- Provide technical supervision and technical support to the trainers and partners’ supervisors
- Ensure the recruitment and appraisal processes of medical/paramedical staff
- Identify and validate technical trainings
- Provide briefing on health services availability and process for international staff at arrival in Uganda
- Participate to national staff health policy definition, implementation and evaluation
- Identify, validate referral health facilities for international and national staff
- Ensure quality health data monitoring system is applied by the partners, especially MARPI as far as the LGBT project is concerned and HRAPF
- Participate to technical aspects of local partnership development
- Prioritize medical issues trainings for the partners
- Participate to health sector platforms and any relevant health coordination mechanisms in both Yumbe and Kampala
- Establish and maintain good relationship with Ministry of Health, partners, UN agencies and other NGOs
- Supervise the pharmacies operations quality (consumptions, orders & inventory)
- Participate to MdM internal meetings, elaborate health activities monthly reports
- Participate in the writing of donors activity reports and proposals
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant must be a Medical doctor or nurse or midwife with experience in public health and project coordination
- Two to three years of professional experience in humanitarian settings with significant experience in similar positions
- Working experiences in public health. Experience in outbreak management and emergency response
- Experience in hard negotiations with local authorities, partners and staff in a tricky context
- Demonstrated experience to work with local partners
- Ability to have a global overview of a programme (not only on medical plan)
- Ability to take quick decisions according to the context in coordination with the team
- Ability to manage a team
- Reactivity, anticipation, adaptation
- Ability to manage the priorities
- Ability to take initiative, work independently and foster a team environment.
- Strong organizational, oral and written communication and coordination skills.
- Excellent project design and proposal development skills and developing tools for cross-organizational sharing of best practices
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
- Demonstrated writing and reporting skills
- Team spirit
- Good sense of diplomacy and understanding of international global political issues
- Interest in politically sensitive projects (e.g. sexual minorities and gender identities)
- Languages: English mandatory, French is an asset
- IT: Excellent excel skills
- You are committed to MdM’s values as an organisation and motivated by its non-statutory, NFP model.
Benefits
- Gross monthly salary: 2.816 euros
- Premium equal to one month salary paid in two instalments – minimum of 6 months seniority required
- Expatriation bonus (10% gross salary per month)
- Transportation cost, vaccines and visas covered
- Guesthouse housing
- 22.5 RTT (recovery days) per year
- 5 weeks of paid leaves per year
- Health insurance (60% covered by MdM, 40% by the employee)
- Insurance (repatriation…)
How to Apply:
All candidates should upload an updated CV and cover letter online at the link below.
Deadline: 28th May 2020